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Millions of U.S. Citizens Could Be Excluded under Trump Plan to Remove Unauthorized Immigrants from Census Data

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Millions of U.S. Citizens Could Be Excluded under Trump Plan to Remove Unauthorized Immigrants from Census Data

Randy Capps, Jennifer Van Hook, & Julia Gelatt, Migration Policy Institute (July 2020)

Trump recently announced a move to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 U.S. Census data. MPI predicts that nearly 20 million U.S. Citizens might be excluded from the data since no foolproof way exists to discern an undocumented immigrant from documented ones.

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U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules

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Miriam Jordan, N.Y. Times (June 26, 2020)

Judge Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered the release of all children held in all of the three family detention centers in the country by July 17th. This order comes as children have tested positive for COVID-19 and applies to children held in detention for more than 20 days.

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New Legislation Partially Addresses Immigrant Families Left Out of Previous COVID-19 Relief, Continues to Exclude Millions of Children

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New Legislation Partially Addresses Immigrant Families Left Out of Previous COVID-19 Relief, Continues to Exclude Millions of Children

CLASP (June 16, 2020)

New legislation would allow spouses of ITIN filers with Social Security Numbers to receive stimulus payments; including millions of families in economic relief initially left out in the CARES Act. However, families whose parents do not have Social Security Numbers would remain ineligible.

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Kids’ Suit Alleging Covid Relief Payments Discriminate Proceeds

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Kids’ Suit Alleging Covid Relief Payments Discriminate Proceeds

Julie Steinberg, Bloomberg News (June 22, 2020)

Courts granted minors the right to sue the federal government for discrimination in COVID-19 CARES Act subsidy payments that were not allowed to go to citizen children of undocumented parents. The government must now face a proposed class action suit.

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Immigrant Teens Left Out When Trump Ended DACA are In Limbo After Supreme Court Ruling

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Immigrant Teens Left Out When Trump Ended DACA are In Limbo After Supreme Court Ruling

Julia Preston, The Marshall Project (June 19, 2020)

While the Supreme Court dismissed Trump’s efforts to eliminate DACA, many young people still do not know what their future might hold. The Supreme Court’s decision has no implications for allowing new participants from applying for DACA protections.

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What the Supreme Court’s Ruling Means for DACA Participants and Immigrants

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What the Supreme Court’s Ruling Means for DACA Participants and Immigrants

Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (June 18, 2020)

This article outlines questions people might still have about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Trump’s administrations attempts to dismantle DACA. It covers questions pertaining to implications and next steps for DACA recipients as well as Trump’s response.

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Just 39 Unaccompanied Migrant Children Avoided Trump’s Border Expulsions in May

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Just 39 Unaccompanied Migrant Children Avoided Trump’s Border Expulsions in May

Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News (June 18, 2020)

Of the 1,001 children detained at the border in May, only 39 made it to the Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters while all other children were deported. This alarming trend is one of the most recent efforts by the Trump administration to limit immigration to the United States.

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